Cyberattacks are increasingly making headlines. Data breaches and attacks are an inevitable part of an organization’s operations. Cybercriminals may use phishing, malware, or insider threats to penetrate infrastructure and steal sensitive information.
Businesses that breach cybersecurity faces more than just the loss of sensitive data. Cybersecurity breaches can affect the market value of a company, jeopardize the brand reputation and undermine competitiveness. The consequences of a single cyber attack can be irreversible and devastating.
Why you need to move from cybersecurity to cyber resilience
Pandemics aren’t the only disaster that businesses need to build strength against. Any unforeseen event, be it a natural disaster, changes in the economy, or anything else, should be part of comprehensive disaster recovery planning.
Such unforeseen events provide many opportunities to pivot in response to risk. Here are the main risk-based options that make the transition from cybersecurity to cyber resilience necessary.
Strategic risks, including business continuity, reputational risk, competition, insured legal risks, and more. If not mitigated promptly, these risks can affect an organization’s resilience.
Financial risks have implications for regulatory agencies, tax complexities, and employee outsourcing.
Operational risks include organizational and digital functions. They can affect the business process and everyone involved.
Remote working can easily expose an organization to cyber threats.
If an organization becomes subject to constant cyber threats, its networks will likely be compromised. That’s why businesses need to be prepared.
Cyber resilience allows a company minimizes the impact of persistent threats. It reduces the likelihood of a successful attack and minimizes the damage if an attack succeeds.
What is the difference between them?
Cybersecurity is the response to a cyber attack, while cyber resilience is the anticipation of a possible attack.
For example, an empire may first build a vast, solid wall when it wants to prevent a security breach. If it feels that this is not enough, it can create another division that is higher than the existing one and perhaps add a moat.
Can such measures fully protect the empire from breaking through? History tells a different story.
Cybersecurity is partly like that wall. It aims to prevent hackers from penetrating the IT security wall. While it can prevent most attacks, a hacker can still find a way through that mighty wall when the landscape changes. Despite all measures, an organization can still be vulnerable to a cyberattack.
Cyber Resilience – a permanently equipped and permanently trained ninja technician
Cyber resilience is to anticipate, resist, and adapt. It depends on the theory of “when a cyber attack occurs,” not “if a cyber attack occurs.”
A cyber-resilient business is like a ninja, able to react and recover from a cyber attack. Such a business can continue to operate after an attack and eventually return to normal and become more able to withstand future disruptions.
This helps organizations anticipate the actions of hackers and be informed of the possible threats they pose. Thus, organizations are prepared to prevent, defend, defend themselves, and respond successfully to attacks.
Cyber resilience is a cultural shift-an ongoing challenge that applies security best practices to protect an organization’s networks and systems. Here are five key areas:
Preparation: Consequently, an organization needs a layered approach to prevent cyberattacks. This includes technology, people, and processes. Cyber resilience involves having a comprehensive security policy, training, and workplace support to ensure that everyone involved knows their role.
Protection: In addition to essential security software, more sophisticated solutions, such as an endpoint detection and response solution, provide greater protection.
Resilience: Resilience means getting back up every time we fall. Cyber resilience means getting back up no matter what. Effective data backup and recovery is essential to avoid a complete shutdown of all business operations. Automated, granular data backup and recovery on a separate network will allow businesses to quickly recover data that may have been seized or erased.
Adaptability: In the words of one writer, adaptability is the simple secret to survival! And it’s a key component of cyber resilience. Security solutions that use up-to-date threat intelligence ensures that the network can automatically adapt to the latest threats. Such analytics allow you to understand current threats and make accurate predictions about likely future attacks.
Conclusion
Since data security is a primary concern for every organization, investing in cyber resilience can never go wrong.
Cyber resilience is about changing mindsets. It’s about security operating both internally and externally. Only by thinking about overall network resiliency can businesses overcome and deal with future threats.
The security experts at GREY CLOUD SERVICES – FZCO know the digital world and know how to nip cyber threats in the bud and ensure your business is resilient to attack. This means you can leave your cyber problems in your hands with the confidence that they will be solved efficiently.
